Mounting NFS filesystems using /etc/fstab on OS X 10.5

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Create an /etc/fstab file 

sudo touch /etc/fstab

Populate it with entries such as 

my.computer.com:/Users  /foobar nfs -i,-P,-b 0 0



 man fstab

for details on what syntax to use for these entries.

Restart the Automounter

If you haven't messed with anything, you can probably skip this step, but for the record, 

sudo automount -cv

Check it

cd /foobar

This should automount the remote file system as /foobar 

df -h | grep foobar

should give output like 

map -static                                                    0Bi        0Bi       0Bi    100%    /foobar
my.computer.com:/Users                            115Gi   84Gi   31Gi    73%    /foobar

Tweak for non-OS X filesystems

The good folks at Apple suggested I do the following to make automounts work for my linux and sun filesystems:

Change 

AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS=nosuid,nodev

in /etc/autofs.conf to 

AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS=nosuid,nodev,resvport






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